Interference of holon strings in 2D Hubbard model.

J Phys Condens Matter

Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States of America.

Published: February 2024

The 2D Hubbard model with large repulsion is an important problem in condensed matter physics. At half filling, its ground state is an antiferromagnet (AMF). The dope AMF below half filling is believed to capture the physics of highsuperconductors. And the fermion excitation of this dope AMF is theorized as splitting up into holons and spinons that carry charge and spin separately. It is believed that these exotic holons and spinons are the origins of the unusual properties of highsuperconductors. Despite the interests in holons and spinons, the direct observations of these excitations remain difficult in solid state experiments. Here, we show that with the rapid advances in the experimental techniques in cold atoms, the direct observation of holons is possible in quantum quench dynamic processes in cold atom settings. We show that the well-known holon-strings generated by the motion of a holon as well as their interferences can be detected by the measurements spin-spin correlations and demonstrate the presence of the Marshall phase associated with a holon string reflecting an underlying AMF background. Moreover, we show that the interferences of the holon strings make a holon propagate anisotropically, with a diffusion pattern clearly distinct from that of spinless fermions. At the same time, we show that these interferences lead to a large suppression in magnetic order in the region swept through by the strings (even to about 95% for some bond). We further demonstrate the Marshall phase of the holon-strings by comparing the dynamics of holon in themodel with that of the so-calledσtJ-model, which is themodel with the Marshall phase removed. The holons in these models propagate entirely differently.

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